AMD Radeon R5 230 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 230 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 230

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • 40x more pipelines: 160 vs 4
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
  • 74x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 222 vs 3
  • 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 255 vs 111
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 April 2014 vs 1 September 2002
Pipelines 160 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 222 vs 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 vs 111

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

  • 192x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 960 MTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 230
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
222
3
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
255
111
Name AMD Radeon R5 230 ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark 222 3
PassMark - G2D Mark 255 111
Geekbench - OpenCL 4127
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 439
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 992
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 992
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2480
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2480

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R5 230 ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Rage 7
Code name Caicos M9
Design AMD Radeon R5 200 Series
Launch date 3 April 2014 1 September 2002
Place in performance rating 1313 1311
Price now $50
Type Desktop Laptop
Value for money (0-100) 6.10

Technical info

Floating-point performance 200.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 160 4
Texture fill rate 5 GTexel / s 960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 19 Watt
Transistor count 370 million 36 million
Boost clock speed 240 MHz
Core clock speed 240 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 1.0 x4
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 4x
Length 168 mm
Supplementary power connectors N / A

API support

DirectX 11 8.1
OpenGL 4.4 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 10.67 GB / s 3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 200 Bit
Memory type DDR3 128
Memory clock speed 400 MHz
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
​PowerPlay